People understand the idea of 'simile', right?

[elisteran]

I wouldn't have bothered saying something, but some normally interesting locations are leaping into this fray with over-excited headlines and little rational argument: Ken Buck, a conservative candidate for Senate in Colorado, said that ""I think that birth has an influence over [homosexuality], like alcoholism and some other things, but I think

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[zaitcev]

More importantly, when are you going to admit that I was right about Obama being the king of all homophobes?

[elisteran]

I don't remember that argument and don't really think it's right.

[night_princess]

It's politics. In my opinion, a lot of politics boils down to irrational screaming because, in order to pass laws, people have to get sufficiently worked up about something to want to force their opinions on others. Likewise, to prevent laws from being passed, the "con" people also have to get sufficiently worked up to counteract all the worked-up "pro" people.